What is best is to be a healthy weight and have a healthy lifestyle before you actually conceive. You are more likely to have a low-risk pregnancy and a natural birth if you have a healthy pre-pregnancy weight.

Dieting is not recommended during pregnancy. What is recommended is to eat a healthy, balanced diet packed full of fresh fruit and vegetables. You should carry on exercising at a level you were doing pre-pregnancy.

You may like to have a read of this recent thread about weight gain during pregnancy. This thread discusses how it is your body mass index (BMI) which is important.

Warm wishes,
LJ

13th July 2014, 06:13 AM

learnaboutbabies

Thanks, LJ!

14th July 2014, 03:31 AM

ljmarsden

You are really welcome. Please do post back if you have any further questions.